- Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary.
Title: Plainsong
Author: Kent Haruf
In my book, Plainsong, every morning Victoria Roubideaux wakes up puking sick. Her mother only thinks she has been drinking the night before, until it clicks in her brain and realizes Victoria has been puking every morning. Victoria’s mother kicks her out when she concluded on her being pregnant and Victoria has to go stay with a friend. A high school girl is knocked up and kicked out.
“Victoria, what’s the matter with you?”(8) “Nothing, Mama go back to bed” (8). At first Victoria’s mother thinks she has only been drinking. “Don’t lie to me. You’ve been drinking, haven’t you?”(9) Obviously that isn’t the case. “You know what I think, little miss… I think you got a baby in you and it’s making you puking sick” (9). “Mama, don’t” (10). Victoria didn’t know what to do; her eyes began to fill up with tears. “You can just leave this house” (10). Victoria got ready for school after that argument and came back that night around seven after her shift at the café.
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